Here you can read about what clay is, where to find it and how to work with it.
Ages: 2-5 yrs, 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: Preschool, K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: ECE, Primary, Junior, Middle School, High School
Using the technique of cutting paper, participants will be making positive and negative shapes that will be used to create a composition.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Students will learn about Expressionism as they create portraits in the style of artists like Emile Nolde, Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
A great way to use up those scraps of fabric, yarn and other found objects is to make a fabric assemblage or collage.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School, High School
Students will use a magazine photo of a person, cut in half, as the beginning of a drawing. Half magazine picture, half drawing.
Ages: 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Junior, Middle School, High School
Students will make faux stained glass hearts using construction paper and tissue paper.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
A step by step lesson plan that shows you how to construct a foam and wire mobile.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Students will learn the importance of Ancient Greek architecture and discover how society has been inspired by Ancient Greek art, law, literature and architecture.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Students will create fruit and vegetable portraits inspired by the work of artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Learn how to make a dumbek or conga drum with materials from your garden shed.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
Learn how to make gargoyle masks using paper.
Grades: Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Middle School, High School
This is a wonderful mini lesson in which children will learn how to make gesture drawings.
Ages: 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Junior, Middle School, High School
This lesson plan shows students how to make giant stuffed bird sculptures out of paper.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
Students will design, transfers design to cement paver, safely cut art-grade glass to shape, create permanent mosaic glass design on cement paver and secure with cement mortar and watersealer.
Ages: 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Junior, Middle School, High School
Using white glue for “lead” and chalk (or oil) pastel for “glass”, you can create wonderful stained glass designs. For this particular lesson, personal totems were the theme, however you can use any subject or theme with this project. (see Glue Fish)
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Here, students explore line shape and color as they work both individually and as an artistic unit to create graffiti.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Students will be introduced to the designs of Ancient Greek Pottery as they explore the use of geometric and organic shape in making ordered patterns.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
This is a motivating project that incorporates music and history as students construct guitar sculptures.
Ages: 11-14 yrs
Grades: Grades 6-8
Levels: Middle School
Students will learn how to write a Haiku poem. They will then discover how to make an ink painting to illustrate their poem.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School, High School
Students will make hamburger collages using colored construction paper
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
By working with ink, watercolor and wet paper, students will be forced to go with the flow as they create happy accident paintings.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School, High School
You can make poppies using heart shapes.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School
Students will learn about positive and negative shapes as they create shamrock paper shapes in the style of artist Henri Matisse.
Ages: 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Junior, Middle School, High School
Students will learn how to draw shaded bottles which appear to be three dimensional.
Grades: Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
Levels: Junior, Middle School
Kids will learn how to make coil pots out of clay.
Ages: 5-8 yrs, 8-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14 yrs+
Grades: K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Primary, Junior, Middle School, High School
Here are step-by-step instructions on how to paint a trendy wooden sign.
Grades: Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Levels: Middle School, High School
